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The Suffolk Guild of Ringers for the Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich


Learning to Ring

If you would like to learn to ring, please contact: the Guild PRO, Neal Dodge
Learning to Ring leaflet

The Norman Tower. © Mike Whitby.
The Norman Tower at Night © Mike Whitby
New Tenor.
Grundisburgh's New Tenor Arriving at Church
© Stephen Pettman

Welcome to the Suffolk Guild of Ringers website.

We hope you will find something useful on our website whether you are interested in learning to ring, have just started to learn or are already a member with years of ringing experience. There’s also a section all about what goes on behind the scenes to keep the Guild running!

Our four districts run a monthly programme of events aimed at all levels of ability, details of which can be found on What’s On, and we always welcome visitors whether you are on a business trip or on holiday in our beautiful county!.

The Guild was established in 1923 following the formation of the new Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1914 and currently has nearly 780 members from over 250 towers including the UK’s heaviest ring of five at East Bergholt and the oldest complete ring of 8 at Horham.

If you would like to know more about the Suffolk Guild or bell ringing in general, please do not hesitate to contact one of the officers.

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Neal Dodge

What's On
in the next four months

For full details please see What's On

July

Saturday 19th

Surprise Major Practice.Aldeburgh

Friday 25th

ART Foundation Skills/Kaleidoscope session.Barham St Mary & St Peter, IP6 0PT

Saturday 26th

SW District Striking Competition.Little Cornard (6)

August

Friday 1st - Sunday 31st August

SW District Quarter Peal Month.

Saturday 2nd

SE District Outing.

Saturday 9th

NW District Outing.

NE District Quarter Peal Day.

Sunday 10th

Royal Greenwich Observatory founded.

Friday 15th

VJ Day.

Wednesday 20th

Beccles 10 Bell Practice.

Sunday 24th

Captain Matthew Webb swam the English Channel.

Friday 29th

ART Foundation Skills/Kaleidoscope session.Barham St Mary & St Peter, IP6 0PT

September

Saturday 6th

SE District Ringing.Stutton St Peter, IP9 2SD (6, 11-2-17, good going order, tower ring)

Saturday 13th

NW District Striking Competition.St Leonard, Horringer (6), IP33 2EX

Friday 19th

ART Foundation Skills/Kaleidoscope session.Barham, St Mary & St Peter, IP6 0PT

Thursday 25th

Surprise Major Practice.Offton

Saturday 27th

Stockton and Darlington Railway opened.

October

Saturday 4th

SW District Outing.

SE District Ringing.Pettistree ( 6, 7-3-13, excellent going order, ground floor ring)

Saturday 11th

NW District Annual Meeting.Fornham St Martin (8), IP31 1ST

Wednesday 15th

Beccles 10 Bell Practice.

Friday 17th

ART Foundation Skills/Kaleidoscope session.TBC

Sunday 19th

Guild Management Committee.Stowupland Church Hall

Saturday 25th

SW District Practice.Drinkstone

Friday 31st

Surprise Major Practice.Henley

November

Saturday 1st

SE District Ringing.Bramford St Mary the Virgin, IP8 6AT (6, 10-3-6, excellent going order, tower ring)

Saturday 8th - Sunday 23rd November

NW District Quarter Peal Fortnight.

Saturday 8th

NW District Practice.St Mary, Hinderclay (6), IP22 1NH

Saturday 15th

Surprise Major Practice.Ipswich, St Margaret

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